Piper Learning, Inc. v. My Creativity Box, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

PIPER LEARNING, INC., Case No. 21-cv-07067-YGR (AGT)

Plaintiff,

ORDER REQUESTING

v. SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEFING ON

PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR

MY CREATIVITY BOX, INC., DEFAULT JUDGMENT

Defendant. Re: Dkt. No.

Piper Learning, Inc., alleges that after it severed ties with its co-founder and former CEO, Mark Pavlyukovskyy, Pavlyukovskyy founded a new company, My Creativity Box, Inc., at which he continued to use Piper’s trademarks and trade secrets, and through which he inter- fered with Piper’s efforts to raise additional venture capital. See Dkt. 24, FAC ¶¶ 9–25. My Creativity Box, not Pavlyukovskyy, is the defendant in this case. But in 2020, Piper brought substantially similar claims to those raised here (i.e., trademark infringement, trade secret misappropriation, conversion, interference with economic advantage) against Pavlyu- kovskyy, and Piper settled with Pavlyukovskyy in 2021. See Piper, Inc. v. Pavlyukovskyy, No. 20-cv-03663-WHO, Dkt. 64-2. Given that prior case, plus the preliminary findings below, the Court directs Piper to explain why this case isn’t…